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Monday, December 17, 2012

Little Tree

Several years back I found the board book Little Tree based on a poem by e.e. cummings, written and illustrated by Chris Raschka. I have never found that book again, but I wish I could because I'd like to give it away each year. It is remarkably sad, I think, yet sweet at the same time. Kind of like a cuter, more festive Giving Tree. Read it. Or, if you can't, at least read e.e. cummings' poem below. I think the Gothic undertones come through in the poem as well. Still, the illustrations in the book are so wonderful, and to me they and the expanded story fit the (faux?) quaint style and geometric repetition of the poem.

"every finger shall have its ring/ and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy "

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